Hi Donna,

What has happened is that your CMOS (or BIOS) cannot find the hard drive.
Restart your computer and enter Setup. Your screen will say press Esc,
Delete, F2, F10 whatever. Under the listing for HDD IDE will be all zeroes
(for Cylinder heads, number of cyclinders, etc). Find and press the
"autodetect: button. The cyclinder heads, etc should have numbers (one may
be zero - that's OK). Save and exit (usually F10) and let computer boot. All
will be well.

Les Barnes


Subject: [PCBUILD] Missing operating system


> I am working on my sons pc and when it tries to boot up it says missing
> operating system, I would appreciate any help I  can get.  Thanks Donna
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